
Every component was created with capacity so great that it will never be operated at or near its stress point. McIntosh’s permanence in the marketplace is owed to its history of phenomenal components, all adhering to the same design criterion set forth by Frank McIntosh and Gordon Gow superior sonic performance and unmatched reliability. They are the only surviving “foundational” high fidelity equipment manufacturer around today, still headquartered in Binghamton, New York, with operation and manufacturing carried out in the same method of the originators. Thus nurturing the high-fidelity industry and spearheading it for years to come.įor more than six decades McIntosh has maintained dominance in the high-end audio industry. Hindsight confirms the company introduced a new era of professional audio excellence and they were amongst the first to market professional equipment to the consumer. Word of mouth spread and demand grew thus Frank McIntosh & Gordon Gow had new day jobs and McIntosh Laboratory was born. The audio test equipment of the day was not designed to test an amp of such exceeding performance characteristics. The amplifier was so far superior in output and distortion specs it was at first met with disbelief. Hiring engineer Gordon Gow as his assistant the duo researched and developed a landmark amplifier. Most notably was the need for high-powered, low distortion amplifier.

Being on the forefront of this burgeoning industry he saw the many shortcomings of the professional equipment of the day.

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